Dear List, Someone mentioned that my messages were hardly readable. That is they turned black as soon as you opened them. Did that happen to you too? In any case, I switched back to netscape to resend my latest post hoping to get comments and suggestions. I must confess that today, I used HT for the first time. The piano was a small Currier spinet. The kind I usually don't enjoy tuning. From observing the music sheets that were laying around on the piano, I could tell the piano was used by beginners, probably children. Using RCT, I just measured the piano's inharmonicity, and then using the tools, converted the tuning to a "victorianized 1/7 comma well" (usning the numbers given by Bill Bremmer on this list on a previous post). I didn't know what to expect, since I had never done HT by ear. After tuning the temperament section, I tried my usual test. The temperament sounded weard. I kept on tuning using RCT exclusively, did a second pass and then played on the piano. I was surprised. Never before had I heard this type of piano sound so good. Thanks to the list for giving me the courage to try this. I will keep on trying. I spoke with a professor at the university and he has agreed to let me do a blind test for temperament tuning on the two pianos in the faculty small concert hall. I will let you know how thing come out. I wonder what HT I should use though. If any of you have suggestions, PLEASE let me know. Marcel Carey, RPT Sherbrooke, QC
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